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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.
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I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
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Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”
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